A warning to America
A few thoughts on where the UK went wrong on free speech.
I had the great privilege of appearing at the Turning Point USA event at UC Berkeley last Monday. Given that this was to be the final stop of Charlie Kirk’s tour, we spent a great deal of time discussing the importance of free speech.
While those inside the venue were engaged in calm and rational conversation, outside deranged protesters were ranting at imaginary ‘fascists’ and even resorted to physical assaults. You can read my account of that here.
Here’s what I had to say about where the UK has gone wrong, and why the USA needs to be vigilant.
As lucid and to the point as usual Andrew. Never stop.
Excellent – and that bit of history at the end is something everyone should know. The fact that most students in the UK can tell you there are 354 genders but (probably) have no idea what the Magna Carta is says everything about the state of Britain. It’s become the world’s leading example of civilisational decline – a tragic fate for a nation that, as you say, practically invented the liberalism the rest of us took for granted until about ten minutes ago.